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IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN A WEEK!

'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

[Lindisfarne]

Me: (chanting) teeth, teeth-

Other fossil hunters: teeth, TEETH

British Geological Society: [pounding its clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

OpenAI Unveil “Final Slogan”

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

If you're a streamer or someone who makes widgets/overlays for streams, then Eric and I have just released a cool website that we hope will help you out!

ekg.gg

A full SDK and devkit for making widgets, a marketplace to buy & sell (or get for free) widgets, and a real-time scene editor.

seeing news about a "memory shortage." it's not a shortage. billionaires who hate you hoarded it all so they could make everything worse and stupider and more expensive, just like with most shortages

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

I've grown increasingly wary of anytime the emphasis is placed on "you should be the bigger person" rather than "they should not have done that to you"

Hilarious LRR office discussion of the curling debacle, in which we—as Canadians—are disappointed.

ME: I feel like he’s not acting very Canadian

JAMES: This guy’s from Alberta

BEEJ & BEN (Albertans): Awww man

JAMES: Specifically from St. Albert

BEEJ & BEN: OH!! Well then fuck THAT guy!

A reminder that there's some awfully coincidental timing between Discord's age verification rollout in March juuust around the suspected* time of their supposed IPO (filed in January)...

(* Analysts guessed it would come in March when they filed)

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

Join us Friday, February 20th at 10:00AM Pacific for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pre-PreRelease! Broadcasting live on both Twitch and YouTube, it'll be your first chance to see #MTGxTMNT sealed in action! We hope to see you there! #Sponsored

I hear from a lot of readers trying to track down the harder-to-find #Animorphs books. They're long out of print, but I do want to mention that the entire series, including the Megamorphs and Chronicles books, are available as audiobooks. 💚🦎

Here's the series on @libro.fm:

What’s even the point in watching then

Grian, Scar, False, Tango, and Zedaph participate in Gamer's for Giving 2025 raising money for Gamer's Outreach, providing gaming karts for children while in hospital. The 2026 event has now been announced as taking place April 11-12th, 2026.

Cub, Pearl, Scar, Zedaph, and Gem participate in Gamer's for Giving 2025 to benefit Gamer's Outreach. The 2026 event has been announced as taking place April 11-12th, 2026.

Hermitcraft at Gamer's for Giving 2025 benefiting Gamer's Outreach. The 2026 charity event has been announced as taking place April 11-12th, 2026.

Hermitcraft announcement !

The Hermitcraft charity event benefiting Gamers Outreach is BACK for 2026!

April 11th & 12th, mark your calendars, clear your schedules, and get your snacks ready. This one’s going to be bigger, better, and more chaotic than ever

every xenoblade 1 cutscene

Join Democracy Rising in a protest against Hootsuite's involvement with #ICE. @Hootsuite.com is a #Vancouver tech company providing social media services. Their customers include the Department of Homeland Security and ICE.

petition to protect gender affirming care in canada. go fuckin sign it
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Lord of the rings: Merry looks into the glowing palantir orb… and screams

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

Ayyyy, Sudbury reference!

People lost their jobs for saying they didn’t feel bad Charlie Kirk died but I’m watching Kristi Noem call Renee Good a domestic terrorist.

In Canada, call or email Evan Solomon and demand he do his job as “Minister of AI and Digital innovation” to stop the CSAM and non-consensual porn. X should be banned in this country.

📞 416-972-2030
📧 evan.solomon@parl.gc.ca

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

Lorwyn Eclipsed is right around the corner which means it's already time for the first Pre-PreRelease of 2026!

Join us next Friday, January 9th at 10:00AM for your first look at sealed gameplay in action with your favourite group of Magic playing Canadians on both Twitch and YouTube! #Sponsored

this remains the greatest synopsis of incel culture one could ever ask for

[me telling my story how I survived a plane crash and lived on a deserted island for a year] it was crazy
[friend who once got a text from me where I accidentally called the grinch the grink] was the grink there?

Take every excuse you can get to cook a delicious meal, hug your loved ones, give to others, and spread light in the darkest part of the year.

Almost Christmas means it wasn’t Christmas

Gamers. It’s time

The family of mice singing “No cheeses for us meeces” in the opening song (“Scrooge”) of THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (1992), a movie that I saw in the theater at age 10 and which immediately became a formative movie and deeply held family favorite, its annual viewing soon becoming a family tradition, and which has always been incredibly dear to me, even though I consider myself only an average enthusiast when it comes to the Muppets (I grew up with them and still love them with that warm childhood purity but I am not at Disney-Adult-levels of obsession or passionate opinion—but I will say that THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is one of the best adaptations of Dickens’s story in the entire history of cinema, and no one since ’92 has come remotely close), and which I have always found incredibly moving and beautiful and tragic and redemptive, and which always makes me cry quietly during several key scenes; it is one of my strongest links to childhood memory.

When they ask me what radicalized me